We Didn’t Plan on Two Dogs

Kauai has a way of giving you things you didn’t know you needed.

In 2018, our family took a trip to the island and came home with Dorothy — a rescue pitbull who made it very clear she was coming with us. We thought that was the whole story. Then last December, we went back as a family and, well… Kauai got us again. That’s when we met Tilly.

Here’s what happened. The Kauai Humane Society has this genius program called the Field Trip Program. You can check out a dog for the day, take them on the trails, bring them to the beach, just be with them for a few hours. It sounds innocent. It is not innocent. It is absolutely a ploy. You spend one afternoon with a dog on a Hawaiian beach and suddenly you’re filling out adoption paperwork and figuring out how to fly a pitbull to the mainland.

They make it easy, by the way. The Kauai Humane Society will help get your dog to you anywhere in the United States and possibly beyond. They’ve clearly done this before.

Both times, there was no grand deliberation. Just that quiet gut feeling that said this one. Before logic had a chance to weigh in, our hearts had already decided.

I think about that a lot in real estate. The best decisions, buying a home, starting over somewhere new, making a leap, rarely come from a spreadsheet. They come from that same knowing. You walk through a door and something shifts. You just feel it.

Dorothy and Tilly are proof that intuition, when you let it lead, takes you exactly where you’re supposed to go.

(And if you’re ever in Kauai, consider yourself warned about the Kauai Humane Society Field Trip Program.)